Here are the interviews at the SES-8 Launch, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Spacex Chief Designer and CEO Elon Musk and SES Chief Technology Officer Martin Halliwell brief the media the day before the first launch attempt of the SES satellite in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

At SATCON 2013, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with David Anhalt, VP & General Manager, Iridium PRIME on the status of Iridium PRIME and his views of the military satellite market going forward.

International Datacasting has announced the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer, Steven Archambault and Vice President of Products, Steeve Huin. The company said it also restructured its global sales force to increase IDC's responsiveness to opportunities in rapidly-growing emerging markets.

The German-based broadcast equipment manufacturer L-S-B has launched a new office in the U.S. with the establishment of L-S-B USA, which commenced operations on November 1, 2013. Appointed Director of Sales and head of the subsidiary is Mark Whitman.

Artel Video Systems has appointed Philip Dubs to the newly created position of Director of Broadcast Sales. Dubs joins Artel after more than 30 years of experience in sales, operational, and management roles in the broadcast industry.

Larry Konopelko, President of Comtech PST Corp., will be retiring effective January 31, 2014. Larry joined Comtech PST in 2001, as General Manager, and was promoted to President in 2002.

Michael Hrybenko will be taking over as President of Comtech PST upon Larry's retirement. Michael is currently the Vice President of Engineering at Comtech PST. In addition to Michael's leadership role in the technical side of the business, he has also been very involved in Comtech PST's marketing activities.

Production & Satellite Services, Inc. (PSSI), a satellite transmission and event management company, has hired Matt Scalici as its new general manager.

Kymeta Corporation, the company commercializing innovative metamaterials-based antennas for satellite communications, today announced the appointment of an advisory board of industry luminaries to assist in the growth of Kymeta as it moves toward bringing its innovative satellite antenna products to market.

The newly formed Kymeta advisory board consists of:

T. Allan McArtor – Chairman of Airbus Americas, Inc.;

Tuvia Barak – former head of Tadiran, Inc.’s North American operations and a leading aerospace industry expert;

View video and audio interviews with key satellite executives from the IBC 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  Including: Peter Ostapiuk, VP-Media Product Management, Intelsat ; Doron Revivi, COO of Satlink Communications; Dr. Peter Siebert, Executive Director, DVB Project; Martin Meisunburg, Director International Sales & Marketing, and Volker Brands, Regional Sales Manager, Narda Safety Test Solutions; Bernd Lehr, Sales Director of ND Satcom; Sanford Jewett, VP-Marketing and John Huddle, Head of Media Services, Thuraya and Alessandro Alquati, Head of Global Contribution, GlobeCast.